SUMMARY

• Over 5 years Project Management experience leading projects of varying durations and complexities for clients large and small.
• Extensive experience in Requirement gathering, Analysis, Planning, Development, Testing and Project Management for highly visible service - oriented customer focused IT projects. Worked with the Project Manager and the PMO in Product Development and Application Delivery.
• Highly motivated and organized professional, with hard work and dedication to achieve set targets and meet consumer and stakeholder demands. Proven skills in the use of project management tools, methodologies and techniques. Experience in different SDLC methodologies like Waterfall and Agile-Scrum.
• Extensive experience in Requirement gathering, Analysis, Planning, Development, Testing and Project Management for highly visible service-oriented customer focused management projects. Worked with the Project Manager and the PMO in Environmental Management and Application Delivery.
• Exhibited proficiency in various elicitation techniques like conducting Interviews, As-Is and To-Be analysis, and Job shadowing. Facilitated meetings like JAD sessions, Focus groups and Requirements workshops. Excellent technical writing, communicating and interpersonal skills. Involved in projects with various team structures and sizes.
• Demonstrated documentation and analytic acumen by authoring artifacts like Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Business Requirements Document (BRD), Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Impact Assessment, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and SWOT Analysis.
• Managed and delivered 2 award winning web applications, in time and under budget.
• Efficiently handled infrastructure migration with a team of 45, located across 7 different locations. Efficiently managed the communication and collaboration amongst the team to timely deliver the products.
• Highly skilled in application development through Scrum methodology. Proven track record of performance as a Scrum Master and as an Agile Project Manager in Agile PLM. Participated in organization wide forum to disseminate Scrum adoption experience.
• Proactively participated in the testing phase, involved in creation of Test Plans and Test Cases. Took part and supervised Black box Testing, System and Integration Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Years of experience and understanding in Data Mapping, Data Modelling, UML Modelling and creating ER diagrams. Knowledge in implementing a Data Warehouse from the planning phase to implementation.
• Managed Executive level communications, updated product dashboards, reports and newsletters on the project progress and had periodic status updates with the Senior Management to keep them informed.
• Coordinated and facilitated mentoring and knowledge sharing sessions and the use of Knowledge banks to encourage code re-use.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Requirement and Modelling Tools: MS Team Foundation Server, JIRA, Rally, MS Visio, Mockup Screens, Wireframes, Axure RP Pro 6.5, InVision

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile - Scrum

Project Management and Business Skills: Impact Analysis, Change Management, SWOT Analysis, JAD Sessions, Project Planning, Project Scheduling, Cost and Time estimation, Quality Assurance and Project Budgeting

Project Management Tools: MS SharePoint 2007, 2010, MS Project

Databases: MS SQL Server 2005, 2008 R2, 2012, MS Access, Oracle 11g

Testing Tools: HP QC v10.0, Load Runner, Fiddler, Selenium

ETL and Reporting Tools: Informatica, SQL Server Data Tools - Business Intelligence, SSRS, SSIS and SSAS, IBM Data Stage, Tableau Desktop, Spotfire, MS Office Suite

Languages and Web Technologies: HTML, XML, SQL, CSS, JavaScript, C#, Java, jQuery, Web services, SOAP, WSDL, REST

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Bloomington, IL

Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Served as the primary technical contact on project teams.
• Reviewed customers’ existing procedures, methodologies, etc. to gain an understanding of their practices and needs.
• Developed system designs that address customers’ environmental compliance and reporting needs.
• Managed and delivered on detailed project and implementation plans.
• Interfaced with an internal development team to augment standard software implementations.
• Worked with other Solution Architects and Configuration Specialists in developing and documenting “best practices”.
• Managed configuration team members during customer implementations.
• Trained and supported customers via email, phone, and in-person workshops.
• Work closely with Sales and Product Management to ensure our customers succeed and meet their business objectives, providing product feedback.
• Introduced, coached, and facilitated the software development team to self-organize and deliver quality products using the Agile-Scrum methodology and related ceremonies.
• Hired resources and facilitated the IT department in upgrading the Data Warehouse and connected Database to adhere to mandated rules.
• Consulted Business experts and Subject Matter Experts to gather required data from various sources. Designed database schema to handle efficient data updates in the future
• Conducted interviews and meetings with the Business Users and Subject Matter Experts to gather constantly changing inputs. Prioritized the Product Backlog to deliver the best possible product at the end of a very conservative deadline.
• Advised the Scrum Masters and encouraged the use of Scrum Best Practices and Estimation techniques like Planning Poker.
• Planned and executed Acceptance Testing along with Continuous Integration and Testing. Efficient planning and management resulted in defect free deployment to Production.
• Facilitated Sprint Review Meetings to effectively capture the changes requested by the stakeholders and communicated with them about their implementation.
• Proactively planned staffing and made dynamic adjustments to ensure project success.
• Worked with Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters and Project Managers of different teams with various levels of maturity to influence cultural change throughout the organization to adopt Scrum and its best practices. The forum also provided an opportunity to express challenges, opportunities and constraints.

Confidential - Jersey City, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with various stakeholders and LOB users to identify data resources to collate necessary details about data inputs to the envisioned system.
• Performed SWOT Analysis, Cost Benefit analysis and Feasibility Study analysis and authored artifacts for the same.
• Created Business Requirement Document (BRD). Prepared Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Risk Management Worksheet, Project Communication Plan and Change Management Plan.
• Conducted BRD review sessions with stakeholders to get sign-offs.
• Used HP Quality Center to manage requirements and allot work to the development team according to the WBS.
• Created detailed Use Case Document, Sequence Diagrams. Created Entity Relationship Model and Conceptual Data Models. Elicited the required options for on screen report viewing.
• Created Data Flow Diagrams and performed Data Profiling.
• Created Data Map to integrate the data about HS Completion and Post-grad plans to the existing Oracle Database
• Managed the integration of the newly developed module to the existing web application in a seamless manner.
• Participated in creating Test Plans, Test scenarios and Test Cases. Used HP QC throughout the project to log and address defects.
• Participated in Smoke testing, Black Box testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Created Post completion surveys and documented the findings, which were the used to prepare a Post Implementation report.

Confidential - Naperville, Illinois

Business Analyst/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Utilized Jira, Confluence and Jama for project management and communications
• Created documentation that explained concepts of planned system
• Gathered requirements and use cases for new core application development
• Prepared documentation on current state production environment
• Reviewed documents prepared by BA team
• Worked with Project Manager to establish project scope
• Decomposed project into milestones and deliverables for Project Manager
• Maintained release schedule and release roadmap for BAU releases for Project Manager
• Participated in search group which recommended purchase of BA software suite

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established Agile methodology as development process to be followed for product
• Coordinated with development team and prospective client to define scope
• Created project plan for Broadcaster and PFCX implementations
• Managed internal and external stake holders through status meetings and updates
• Tracked project and sprint progress while controlling budgets
• Managed and executed application documentation projects
• Managed QA process, wrote test plans and, advised on results as needed
• Managed bug tracking software, reported on bugs and their resolutions
• Trained sales group on new applications

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed a Resource Centre on the University Campus.
• Planned and executed Acceptance Testing along with Continuous Integration and Testing.
• Efficient planning and management resulted in defect free deployment to Production.
• Engaged stakeholder interest through the entire project to receive feedback to deliver quality product.
• Assisted the Product Owner in aligning the business needs and prioritizing the Product Backlog by using Relative Weighting.
• Conducted research experiments in different propagation method on bamboo species
• Managed all laboratory and field accounts and records
• Collected different varieties of Bamboo plant and managed a resource diversity at one site
• Conducted survey of different sites and developed a sustainable plan.